Concise Guide of Movie Menu DIY (1)

Thank Brian Harbaugh for the excellent tutorial about the movie menu DIY. The official tutorial will come soon.

This document is to create your own template with Sothink Movie DVD Maker. Creating your own templates, besides the ones that are already given, is a relatively easy thing to do. I use to use version 3.5 and it accepted new entries without problems with Windows XP. In my example I am using Windows 7. This can be done with any other version of Windows, but the paths to the directories may change.

In C:\Program Files(x86)\SourceTec\Sothink Movie DVD Maker\Templates?the directory where the program is placed? right click NEW and FOLDER and name it MINE. There MUST be 9 (nine) files created for the process to work. You may cut and paste from existing templates you pasted to Temp if needed. Size of files is important, names are not so important!

Nine files are needed will be shown at Tab.1:

Tab.1 Files needed to be prepared

The first file is by default is named background.jpg. It can be any jpeg picture you have, but the smaller the better. It will automatically stretch to fit the background menu. The bigger the jpeg, the less space for video quality! You can change the name in the DVD Menu section by changing BG image path to whatever you have your selected picture named, (flower.jpg). It still must be copied into this directory.

The second file is background.mp3. You also may want an mp3 to play during video selection. Once again size is important, but this file is not really necessary. This file is about 15-180 seconds in length at 128 kbps/44 kHz. The path can be also changed in DVD Menu BG audio.

The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth files are also not that important unless you are planning to have multiple menu screens for your videos. They are next.png, next.wmf, prev.png, and prev.wmf. These files are basically just pictures to click on to go to the next screen or backtrack to the previous screen.

These can be created with Microsoft Paint or copied from other templates if you like the pictures. You may need a WMF editor.

The next two files are video.png and video.wmf. They are used to frame your file that you ADD and as a menu selector. They also can be created with Microsoft Paint or your favorite WMF editor. The size of these files will be discussed in the TEMPLATE.XML which is the most important part of your template creation which I reserved for last as it will be the most detailed.

Most exciting part about the edition of xml file will be explained in “Concise Guide of Movie Menu DIY (2)”.

DIY really brings much fun, why not try this Free Movie Maker–Sothink Movie DVD Maker to DIY your own stylish movie menu?

Do you want to Download HTML5 Video from Internet? (2)

From the last blog about the introduction of HTML5 video, you may become familiar to the new standard way to display video online. And we want to let you know the way to download html5 video from Internet this time.

Famous video sites support HTML5 Player

As HTML5 video is becoming popular, many media websites are ready for it. At present, Youtube, Vimeo and other famous video sharing site have already supported html5 player (examples are listed in the picture below). Not only can you play and watch those html videos online, but you can also download them to your computer as your collection.

How to download html5 video?

So, how to download html5 video? As you know, Sothink Web Video Downloader supports downloading all popular video formats such as FLV, AVI, WMV, ASF, MOV, MP4, M4V, 3GP, RM, RMVB, MKV, and Flash SWF, however, you may not notice that it is also a html5 video downloader, which means the program supports detecting and capturing html5 video automatically.

To download html5 video, please launch Sothink Web Video Downloader first; next, open the browser to play the html5 video online; and then the video will be detected by Sothink Web Video Downloader automatically with a pop-up notification; at last, what you need to do is click OK and follow the instruction to download the video to your computer.

Please check the tutorial below about downloading youtube video as a reference:

http://www.sothinkmedia.com/guide/download-youtube.htm

P.S. If you are interested in youtube downloader, you can also test it for a check.

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Do you want to Download HTML5 Video from Internet? (1)

Currently, html5 video is more and more used in websites, and we can say that html 5 video is the future of the web. The latest version of Sothink Web Video Downloader, which is also a html5 video downloader, can easily capture and download the html5 video online.

Introduction

What is html5 video? Please check the expatiation from Wikipedia as follows:

HTML5 video is an element introduced in the HTML5 draft specification for the purpose of playing videos or movies, partially replacing the object element. See more >>

The Trend of HTML5

At present, Adobe Flash Player is widely used to embed video on web sites such as YouTube, since many web browsers have Adobe's Flash Player pre-installed (with exceptions such as the browsers on the Apple iPhone and iPad and on Android 2.1 or less). Therefore, HTML5 video is intended by its creators to become the new standard way to show video online, with html5 video, those Apple and other mobile users can view the online videos directly. Now, more and more websites have supported or plan to support html5 video. The picture below is about the media websites’ plan for supporting html5 video:

From above, it is easy to see that html5 is the trend of online videos in future, and if you want to get those html5 videos, Sothink Web Video Downloader can help you, as to the details, please wait for How to Download HTML5 Video from Internet? (2).

P.S. If you need to download youtube video, the youtube downloader is also a good tool that may help a lot.